The defect in vision usually affects the inner or nasal side and this loss is often not noticed because it falls into the binocular area covered by both eyes.

Later it may involve the outer area and so lead to “tunnel vision”, where it appears the vision is reduced to seeing straight ahead as if one [...]

A generation has grown up not knowing that the large obstetric hospitals developed because of unsatisfactory results in home deliveries of babies.

Confinements are normal and mother and baby do well in 70 per cent of cases with no complications so for the majority it really doesn’t matter where the mother has the baby.

But what of [...]

Everybody who has cancer is under some nervous strain some of the time. This shows itself in different ways in different people. Symptoms which can be due to nervous tension include difficulty sleeping, lack of energy, irritability, crying spells, loss of appetite, nausea, difficulty in swallowing, indigestion, stomach pains, diarrhoea, breathlessness, chest pains, palpitations, headache, [...]